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Saturday, April 05, 2008

A Brief for Whitey (by Patrick J. Buchanan)

A Brief for Whiteyby Patrick J. Buchanan

How would he pull it off? I wondered.

How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pewfor 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants againstwhite America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS toinfect and kill black people?

How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about "theU.S. of K.K.K. America," and howled, "God damn America!"

But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of whichthe Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.

Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America mustdo to close the racial divide and heal the country.

The "white community," said Barack, must start "acknowledging that what ailsthe African-American community does not just exist in the minds of blackpeople; that the legacy of discrimination -- and current incidents ofdiscrimination, while less overt than in the past -- are real and must beaddressed. Not just with words, but with deeds ... ."

And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?

The "white community" must invest more money in black schools andcommunities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminaljustice system and provide this generation of blacks with "ladders ofopportunity" that were "unavailable" to Barack's and the Rev. Wright'sgenerations.

What is wrong with Barack's prognosis and Barack's cure?

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that blackhustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots inHarlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon putit, "everybody but the rioters themselves."

Was "white racism" really responsible for those black men looting autodealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, asOtto Kerner said -- that liberal icon until the feds put him away forbribery.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. WhiteAmerica needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances anddemands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It washere that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grewinto a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, andreached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have everknown.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than whiteAmericans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, foodstamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans,legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programsdesigned to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all overAmerica have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adulteducation, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new "ladders of opportunity" for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholicschools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing outscholarships for "deserving" white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime andincarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of whiteAmerica? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in theAfrican-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout ratefrom high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of theblack community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, andespecially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that whilewhite criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminalschoose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than thereverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the firstthree years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Dukerape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemicof black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40trillion tax dollars ago.